{"id":10086,"date":"2012-05-14T02:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T09:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2012-05-14T02:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T09:28:29","slug":"dealing-with-snitches-informers-informants-narcs-finks-rats-and-similar-menaces-maybe-its-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/dealing-with-snitches-informers-informants-narcs-finks-rats-and-similar-menaces-maybe-its-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with snitches, informers, informants, narcs, finks, rats and similar menaces (Maybe it&#8217;s a book?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>NOTE:<\/b> This post started out to be one thing, then turned into another. So it&#8217;s not the most organized piece I&#8217;ve ever written. Bear with me. Toward the end, I&#8217;m going to ask your thoughts on what might be a worthwhile project.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I should have remembered this clip from <i>Firefly<\/i>. Instead, H\/T JB for this most elegant method of dealing with a snitch:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GjgGWOpksEw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, few of us have spaceships or fantastic script writers for dealing with betrayers, so we have to wing it and probably not do so well.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about that.<\/p>\n<p>This post is not about libertarian-turned-drug-war-informant Stacy Litz. Obviously, she&#8217;s inspired a lot of people to think about this topic. But I wrote about Stacy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/05\/11\/lift-up-your-fallen-comrade-or-kick-her-in-the-kidneys\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/05\/12\/stacy-litz-on-stacy-litz\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and I&#8217;d like never to mention her name after today. <\/p>\n<p>To most of us &#8212; the ones who didn&#8217;t fall into her path &#8212; she&#8217;s just a fleeting blip on our radar. A year from now somebody utters the name Stacy Litz and we might get a vague feeling of discomfort, a &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t I remember her?&#8221; moment. And that&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s too unimportant to dwell on. At the same time, she has lessons to teach, even if they&#8217;re not the lessons she intends. Her blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/drugwarvictim.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Am a Victim of the American Drug War&#8221;<\/a> is a remarkable record of the mindset of a snitch. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so remarkable &#8212; and so likely to disappear once her lawyer learns about it or Stacy herself realizes the impact it&#8217;s having &#8212; that Bill St. Clair was kind enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/billstclair.com\/drugwarvictim.blogspot.com.tar.gz\" target=\"_blank\">archive it on his computer<\/a> for posterity. (If her site goes down the memory hole, use your archive manager to extract Bill&#8217;s files.)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s learn from her &#8212; and the whole damn sad history of snitchery. And let&#8217;s teach the young <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/06\/07\/so-what-exactly-is-a-freedom-outlaw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agitators, Ghosts, and Moles<\/a> coming up behind us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>This started out as just another blog entry. Or maybe two or three. I was going to throw out different topics related to snitches, make some observations, add comments from Voice of Experience friends, then ask you guys to add your usual $.02.<\/p>\n<p>Then part-way through it occurred to me that a) the topic is too big for that and b) it&#8217;s too important watch it fade away into the blog archive.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m thinking a book. A booklet, really. In various e-formats. We could maybe put it out on Kindle for $.99 and donate all or part of the funds to LEAP. Or to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundraise.com\/deanna-aeanad\/help-victims-of-stacy-litzs-informant-work\" target=\"_blank\">Stacy&#8217;s victims<\/a>, who are going to need a lot more than the $1,000 they&#8217;re asking for right now.<\/p>\n<p>Or we could just make it available for free downloading. I don&#8217;t care. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just thinking that &#8220;A Complete Guide to Dealing with Snitches, Informers, Informants, Narcs, Finks, Rats and Similar Menaces&#8221; could be darned useful. Especially in these USA-STASI days. <\/p>\n<p>The big problem (aside from the work) is that no matter what anybody warns, the careless, naive, and cocky will blithely ignore the advice and stroll into disaster blinkered by their rose-colored glasses. On the other hand, wiser folks don&#8217;t <i>need<\/i> the advice, either because they&#8217;ve got good radar or because they educated themselves about the dangers early on.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I don&#8217;t know that anybody&#8217;s ever compiled the collective snitch wisdom of political activists, gun owners, drug war victims, guerrillas, etc. into a single resource. Maybe we could do that. Maybe somebody could learn from what we here at Living Freedom and others who come over to help out know.<\/p>\n<p>Whether people are interested in doing a project or not, I&#8217;m still going to spend part of this week tossing out rat-related topics.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will be &#8220;Recognizing a Snitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a knowledgeable friend, I&#8217;ve also got a good start on &#8220;If You Deal with a Snitch, Be Ready to Deal with the Cops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If random blog posts is as far as it goes, then that&#8217;s as far as it goes. Please add your usual $.02s, which these days are worth more than the fedgov&#8217;s $200s. But if anyone would be interested in helping to make it a project and has something to contribute, speak up about that, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: This post started out to be one thing, then turned into another. So it&#8217;s not the most organized piece I&#8217;ve ever written. Bear with me. Toward the end, I&#8217;m going to ask your thoughts on what might be a worthwhile project. &#8212;&#8211; I should have remembered this clip from Firefly. Instead, H\/T JB for this most elegant method of dealing with a snitch: Of course, few of us have spaceships or fantastic script writers for dealing with betrayers, so we have to wing it and probably not do so well. Let&#8217;s talk about that. 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